UConn’s senior day: Doty, Faris, Buck (watch)

Senior Heather Buck finished Saturday games with four points, one rebound, one assist and a very good feeling about how meaningful it has been to be part of the program.

“I’ve really grown close and made real meaningful relationships with the people on the team,” Buck said. “These will be some of my very best friends forever. I think everyone is a little bit surprised how hard it is to come here and to play. You know coming in that it is going to be difficult. But until you are really here experiencing it, you don’t realize the magnitude of that challenge.”

Buck said that while the Huskies still have as many as six more home games and possibly two more in-state games in Bridgeport during the NCAA Tournament, Senior Day was very emotional. She cried throughout the ceremony.

“It was really tough,” Buck said. “When it really hit me was when they started announcing Caroline (Doty). When they announced me, I was happy and excited. It’s been a great journey, so I was happy for myself. And then as soon as they started announcing my teammates I am thinking, ‘I am never going to be with them again, not in this way.’ We are all leaving. That is when it really hit me.”